Do you identify with these familiar, nagging issues regarding your to be read list?

1.

It never seems to decrease.

 

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A situation you somehow easily forget as soon as you discover your next great read.

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When selecting a new book from your pile, incidentally, you often feel sad for all the books still waiting to be read.

 

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There is also the problem of space.

 

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And weight.

 

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You also become obsessive about how your prized TBR pile is organized.

 

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Your bookshelf, or bedroom floor, or bathroom, for that matter, tends to intimidate your friends and acquaintances.

 

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And this is what happens as soon as abovementioned friends and acquaintances when, after seeing your impressive TBR pile, ask if they can borrow one of your books.

 

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In truth, you’d rather keep all the books to yourself.

 

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Even if realistically you understand there is no way you will read all of your books in your TBR list. Ever.

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